If Aliens Ever Discover Us........

[Zacs-Master]

Thought provoking:
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/version_printable.pl?story_id=TheyMade.shtml

[sandyRoe]

I do hope they're Vegetarian.

[Prudie]

I'd forgotten about Omni magazine. My ex-husband used to read that, I often flicked through.

[jim360]

I guess we are destined never to meat them then.

[Zacs-Master]

Groan Jim.

[jim360]

Or perhaps, if we did then it would be a misteak. Almost persuades me to want to stay out of space, easier to save our bacon that way. Or am I just being chicken?

[Zacs-Master]

Pork calling Orson. Pork calling Orson.

[wildwood]

No reason to assume there is life out there, at the same time it is not impossible.

A quick scan of international human behaviour would make any alien pass by and never come back.

[ToraToraTora]

"If aliens ever discover us....." - they won't

[Zacs-Master]

What makes you so sure Tora?

[Mosaic]

Blimey - I always thought the title of this story was Sentient Meat, and if asked I'd have filed it way back with the Martian Chronicles period.

[Mosaic]

Tora, depends who you ask. Some believe they walk among us and rule the earth....

[sandyRoe]

Giant lizards that adopt human shape and have infiltrated the highest levels of society?

[Mosaic]

You know as well Sandy? We need to make a plan....

[sandyRoe]

I only speak of such things while under the cloak of anonymity that AB provides. But if he lizards control GCHQ I may still be in danger.

[ToraToraTora]

I can do arithmetic zacs.

[jim360]

Well there's a definitive answer for you ZM and I guess we need never bother considering the subject again. Thanks TTT for clearing up that mystery.

[Zacs-Master]

Yep, if I didn't respect Tora's opinion so much I might challenge him but seeing as he's such an open minded and well respected member of the scientific community, I'll leave it there.

[ToraToraTora]

try it the other way then lads eh? how will aliens ever reach us? BTW I believe that the universe is teeming with life, it's just that any form of communication is prohibited by the distances involved.

[ToraToraTora]

this is the closest planet that could in theory support life.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nasa-discovers-earth-like-plant-support-life-article-1.1761053
500 light years away, it would take a millennium to say hi and we are not even talking about physically visiting and this is like the end of the street in Galactic terms. I don't think people generally comprehend the sheer vastness of even our solar system, let alone the galaxy.

[Zacs-Master]

so from now until the end of the Earth we won't be contacted or visited?